Expressive Painting With Colour and Light

Learn how to use acrylic medium while also delving into the most important aspects of painting, including composition, tone/value, and colour.

In this course, students will have the opportunity to examine the work of celebrated artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Payne, Arthur Streeton, and contemporary artists that interest us.

The course starts by copying paintings that inspire you to understand the basics, but we encourage you to bring your own references and eventually create your own masterpieces.

Throughout the course, we'll cover a range of topics, including still life, flowers, landscapes, seascapes, urban scenes, animals, and people, allowing you to explore what interests you the most.

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Composition

Week 3: Composition

Week 4: Tone/value

Week 5: Tone/value

Week 6: Colour techniques

Week 7: Colour techniques

Week 8: Work on your own project - create your own masterpiece

Week 9: Work on your own project - create your own masterpiece

Term 2 for Expressive Painting with Colour and Light runs from Monday 29 April to Monday 24 June

• Canvas or primed MDF board for acrylic painting
• Sketchbook - Any size from A5 to A3 - for making notes and drawing
• Brushes – majority synthetic brushes and a couple of hog hair brushes
• 3 flat bristle brushes in sizes that are approximately 15mm, 10mm and 5mm wide
• 3 filbert brushes in sizes that are approximately 15mm, 10mm and 5mm
• 1 wide 3-4 cm cheap hog hair brush
• 1 or 2 small round brush for detail
• Acrylic paint in titanium whiteultramarine blue (warm blue), pthalo blue (cool blue), cadmium red (warm red), alizarin crimson (cool red), cadmium yellow medium hue (warm yellow), lemon yellow (cool yellow), burnt umber, burnt sienna, yellow ochre and naples yellow
• Viridian 250ml bottle of Clear painting medium
• 1 palette knife with a pointy tip for mixing paints
• 1 large flat plastic palette
• Masking tape

*If you are not a beginner and would like to use oil paints please bring a jar for you to use odourless solvent (no turps), there is nowhere to dispose of the solvent in the art room and so this must get taken home after class.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

North Sydney Community Centre, 220 Miller Street, North Sydney, Australia